Diane Setterfield Quotes

• There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.

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  Moving, Writing, Blood

  Diane Setterfield (2006). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Siempre he sido una lectora; he leído en todas las etapas de mi vida, y nunca ha habido un momento en el que la lectura no fuera mi mayor alegría

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  Reading, Joy, Stage

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

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  Realidad

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course I loved books more than people.

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  Book, People, Courses

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a secure position. I have been like this ever since the age of seven when, sitting on a high wall and reading The Water Babies, I was so seduced by the descriptions of underwater life that I unconsciously relaxed my muscles. Instead of being held buoyant by the water that so vividly surrounded me in my mind, I plummeted to the ground and knocked myself out. I can still feel the scar under my fringe now. Reading can be dangerous.)

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  Baby, Wall, Reading

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.

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  Running, Wall, Lying

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Una buena historia es siempre más deslumbrante que una verdad rota.

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  Broken, Stories, Pieces

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

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  Silence, Needs, Stories

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

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  Stories, Birth, Continuation

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

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  Alive

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

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  Book, World, Lines

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

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  Stories, Cases, Significance

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter

  Diane Setterfield

  Children, Winter, Events

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

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  Once Upon A Time, Godmother, Stories

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

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  Vacío

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

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  Children, Book, Nostalgic

  Diane Setterfield (2006). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

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  Camino

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

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  Hands, Experts, Prisoner

  "The Thirteenth Tale". Book by Diane Setterfield, 2006.

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• The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

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  Morning, Book, Eight

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

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  Mother, Father, Moving

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Hay culturas en las que se cree que un nombre contiene todo el poder místico de una persona. Que un nombre sólo debe ser conocido por Dios y por la persona que lo posee y por muy pocos privilegiados. Pronunciar un nombre así, propio o ajeno, es ponerse en peligro. Este parecía ser un nombre así.

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  Names, Culture, Should

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

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  Kindness, World, Should

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• Reading can be dangerous.

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  Reading, Dangerous

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

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  Single Mom, Writing, Ideas

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

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  Past, Long, Shadow

  Diane Setterfield (2014). “Bellman & Black: A Novel”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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